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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'



 
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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #1 (permalink) Sun Oct 26, 2008 15:01 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

Hi,
Which one of these two sentences is correct:

'I stayed there the whole evening, listened to all the lectures and thought I would be able to meet that profesor'

'I stayed there the whole evening, listening to all the lectures and thinking I would be able to meet that professor'

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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #2 (permalink) Mon Oct 27, 2008 15:35 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

Except for a spelling mistake in the first one (professor), both sentences are correct.
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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #3 (permalink) Mon Oct 27, 2008 21:48 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

I would put a comma after "lectures" in the first one. That keeps the main verbs "stayed" and "thought" parallel and makes the "listening" phrase a side note.
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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #4 (permalink) Thu Oct 30, 2008 15:39 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

Thanks a lot, Barb and Conchita :)
But grammatically, why are they both correct?
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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #5 (permalink) Tue Nov 04, 2008 15:32 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

Or what's the difference between them?

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Expression 'I stayed there the whole...' #6 (permalink) Tue Nov 04, 2008 15:39 pm   Expression 'I stayed there the whole...'
 

There isn't much of a difference between the two sentences. They are simply two ways of expressing the same thing.
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